Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-1928-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

Reihe: Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism

This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities. Its nine contributions cover both theoretical and typological aspects, such as the classification of languages, the role of language contact, linguistic complexity and spontaneous speech innovations, and convergence and divergence processes in translation, (morpho)syntax and phonology/phonetics. Taken together, these studies provide challenges for linguistic theories that generalize from situations of monolingualism suggesting instead that a sound linguistic theory cannot be a theory for just one single, isolated language but must be a theory for at least two languages. It must also account for the fact that some structures involved in contact situations are not kept apart but develop in such a way that the distance decreases between the languages involved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braunmüller, Kurt

House, Juliane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1–10
Part I. Challenges to accepted views of convergence and divergence in language contact situations

Divergence, convergence, contact: Challenges for the genealogical classification of languages
Georg Bossong

13–40
Increases in complexity as a result of language contact
Östen Dahl

41–52
Converging genetically related languages: Endstation code mixing?
Kurt Braunmüller

53–70
Part II. Convergence and divergence in different varieties in oral and written discourse

Converging languages, diverging varieties: Innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish
Steffen Höder

73–100
Converging verbal phrases in related languages: A case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations
Karoline H. Kühl and Hjalmar P. Petersen

101–124
Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation
Viktor Becher, Juliane House and Svenja Kranich

125–152
On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations
Robert E. Vann

153–182
Part III. Phonological processes of variation and change in bilingual individuals

Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish
Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó and Ariadna Benet

185–204
Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish and bilingual German-Spanish children
Javier Arias and Conxita Lleó

205–234
Author index

235–238
Subject index

239–242